Cops catch alleged thief after he left his car parked at a Hanover Township bank

A Hanover Township man was charged this morning with stealing wires after police allegedly found them in his truck.

According to police:

Colonial Regional Police were called to the Lions Eye Bank on 2346 Jacksonville Road in Hanover Township about 7:25 a.m. after a bank employee spotted a truck belonging to Biagio Antonio Colasante. The employee asked police to tow the truck because it didn't belong to anyone at the bank.

The truck was filled with cut wires, power tools, axes, lanterns and other cutting material.

When the tow truck arrived, officers saw Colasante approach the car and turn around when he noticed police. An officer apprehended him across the street in the Westgate Mall parking lot.

Colasante, 29, admitted he took the wires from an abandoned house on 4770 Hanoverville Road in Lower Nazareth Township. He and a detective later went to the home, where Colasante showed where he took the wires.

Police charged Colasante, of the 4600 block of Smith Drive, with theft by unlawful taking, criminal trespassing, possessing instruments of a crime and criminal mischief.

District Judge Jacqueline Taschner released Colasante on unsecured bail of $10,000 because he cooperated with police.